On 04/08/13 13:15, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
>> On 04/08/13 09:07, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>>> We have reached a milestone. The SVN versions of both LFS and BLFS are
>>> now up to date. There are no major outstanding issues that need to be
>>> fixed.
>>>>>> There are a couple of minor changes that I have to LFS, but those will
>>> be committed soon, but are not critical. KDE is slightly out of date,
>>> but a new version is due anyway in the next two weeks.
>>>>>> Of course, upstream will continue to release additional updates and we
>>> need to stay on top of that, but keeping up is a lot less problem than
>>> getting caught up from being behind on literally hundreds of packages.
>>>>>> With that in mind, I would like to freeze LFS (mostly) on August 15 and
>>> release LFS-7.4-rc1. The target date for LFS-7.4 will be 1 September.
>>> During the freeze period, some packages may be updated, but not gcc,
>>> binutils, or glibc. Any update in the freeze period will be considered
>>> by the impact to the rest of the books - both LFS and BLFS.
>>>>>> In that two week period, beyond normal fixes, I propose to start
>>> rebuilding BLFS and marking packages for lfs74. Shortly after the LFS
>>> release, I'd like to produce a 'stable' BLFS-7.4 with all packages in
>>> BLFS tested against the new LFS. Then sometime in September we can
>>> release BLFS-7.4.
>>>>>> Comments?
>>>>>> -- Bruce
>>>>>>> I'm curious about what are the plans for GNOME in a stable BLFS.
>> Is it going to be completely removed since it incomplete? or will there
>> be some kind of note stating that it is incomplete?
>> GNOME 2 is obsolete and unsupported with newer suport libraries like
> glib. GNOME 3 appears to depend on systemd, so if there is enough
> interest in supporting the systemd branh, then gnome will be suppored
> there.
>> -- Bruce
>>>
So is the GNOME chapter going to be removed from the main branch?
Wayne.